The Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales

This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a 'subversive twin' or dark side of the fairy tale coin, instead it argues that the anti-tale is a genre rich in complexity and radical potential that fundamentally challenges the damaging ideologies and socializing influence of fairy tales.

Autorentext

Dr. Kendra Reynolds received her PhD from Ulster University in Northern Ireland.

Klappentext

This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a 'subversive twin' or dark side of the fairy tale coin, instead it argues that the anti-tale is a genre rich in complexity and radical potential that fundamentally challenges the damaging ideologies and socializing influence of fairy tales. The Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales: Space, Time and Bodies highlights how anti-tales take up timely debates about revising old structures, opening our minds up to a broader spectrum of experience or ways of viewing the world and its inhabitants. They show us alternative architectures for the future by deconstructing established spatio-temporal laws and structures, as well as limited ideas surrounding the body, and ultimately liberate us from the shackles of a single-minded and simplistic masculine reality currently upheld by dominant social forces and patriarchal fairy tales themselves. It is only when these masculine fairy tales and social architectures are deconstructed that new, more inclusive feminine realities and futures can be brought into being.

Inhalt

Introduction

Section One: Space

Chapter 1: 'Psycho'-Geographies and Gendered Maps: Reimagining the City in Feminist Anti-Tales

Chapter 2: Feminist Journeys 'Into the Woods': The Use of Ecofeminist Landscapes in Postmodern Anti-Tales

Section Two: Time

Chapter 3: 'Once Upon Many Times': Subversive Temporalities in Feminist Anti-Tales

Section Three: Bodies

Chapter 4: Embodying the 'Inbetween': Subversive Bodies in Feminist Anti-Tales

Conclusion: Feminine Conclusions: New Architectures, New Futures

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